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1.“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered (arstechnica.com)
870 points by privong on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 362 comments [ext]
2.The Software Revolution (samaltman.com)
400 points by ggonweb on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 388 comments [ext]
3.Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program (reuters.com)
437 points by lxm on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
4. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.Routing on OpenStreetMap.org (openstreetmap.org)
319 points by maxerickson on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
5.Ask HN: Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a better developer? [ext]
225 points by krat0sprakhar on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
6.Life in a post-database world: Using crypto to avoid database writes (neosmart.net)
256 points by ComputerGuru on Feb 15, 2015 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
7. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
7.Sortie en mer – A trip out to sea (sortieenmer.com)
227 points by 32faction on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
8.Why life is absurd (nytimes.com)
217 points by esauer91 on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
9.You Don't Know JavaScript Book Series (youdontknowjs.com)
226 points by colund on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
10. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
10.Harmful Gotos, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths (videlalvaro.github.io)
142 points by nkurz on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
11.Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard (blogs.microsoft.com)
114 points by varunagrawal on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
12.Keep a Changelog (keepachangelog.com)
197 points by snake_case on Feb 15, 2015 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
13. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
13.Git-Stats – A local GitHub-like contributions calendar (github.com/ionicabizau)
176 points by drtse4 on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
14.The Commodore 65 (zimmers.net)
103 points by kmooney on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
15.Google Maps 2D Driving Simulator (framesynthesis.com)
161 points by doppp on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
16. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
16.Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go (github.com/alfredxing)
94 points by alfredxing on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
17.Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple (newyorker.com)
245 points by sinak on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
18.Deb.haskell.org Security Breach (haskell.org)
114 points by corndoge on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
19. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.My Second Hackathon Changed My Life (mlh.io)
103 points by jonmarkgo on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
20.How to Machine Learn (docs.google.com)
136 points by gwulf on Feb 15, 2015 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
21.Million User Webchat with Full Stack Flux, React, Redis and PostgreSQL (rotenberg.io)
129 points by elierotenberg on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
22. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.The Photoshop of Sound (newyorker.com)
90 points by sergeant3 on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
23.8OD – Arduino form-factor Intel 8086 (mattmillman.com)
109 points by chuffchuf on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
24.Evgeny Morozov: Socialize the Data Centres (newleftreview.org)
78 points by nkurz on Feb 15, 2015 [ext]
25. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
25.Sergey Brin's Resume as a Student (stanford.edu)
139 points by krat0sprakhar on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
26.Direct Match (YC W15) Aims to Make Bond Trading as Easy as Stock Trading (techcrunch.com)
64 points by lxm on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads (nomadhouse.io)
127 points by atudoute on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
28. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
28.You can use vi mode editing in any program that uses readline [ext]
86 points by dorfsmay on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
29.HeartForth: An Emoji-Based Stack Language (neilk.net)
53 points by jlag34 on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
30.Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? (chronicle.com)
108 points by Fede_V on Feb 16, 2015 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
31. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments

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